SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 16 April 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current :— Wholesale— Butter (farm) 8d ; butter (factory, bulk, lid; pats, ll*d cash, llsd booked. Eggs, Is 3d per dozen. Cheese, factory 64 d Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 per ton (bags weighed in)' Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £5. Flour, £10 15s to £11 15s Oatmeal, £11 10s to £12. Bran, £4 10s Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, lOd Butter (factory), pats, Is l*d ; bulk, Is. Eggs Is 6d per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 4s 6d per cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 23s 6d ; 501 b6s 6d Oatmealj 501 b, 7s ; 251T), 3s 6d. Pollard, 10s 9d per bag. Bran 5s 6d. Chaff, 3s.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only— Oats : Milling, Is 9d to Is lOd ; feed, Is 7d. Wheat: Milling, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; fowls' wheat, 3s (id to 4s Id. Potatoes: Derwents, £3 10s; kidneys, £2 10s to £3. Chaff : Old, £2 10s to £3 5s ; new, £3 5s to £3 15s. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s • loose £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; SOU), £10 15s ; 251 b £ll' Oatmeal, 25Tb, £11. Bran, £4 10s. Pollard, £5 10s Butter: Dairy, Bd to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese, Old' 6*d; new, ssd. Eggs, Is 6d. Onions: Melbourne, £5 10sChristohurch, £4 15s.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. leport as follows :— We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a moderate catalogue to a good attendance of buyers, and under fair competition the bulk of the catalogue was cleared at satisfactory prices. Oats. — During the past week practically no business has been passing, and shippers show little inclination to purchase at present quotations, in view of the lower prices ruling at northern ports. Very few oats have come to hand this week, nnd quotations remain practically unchanged. We quote • Prime milling, Is 9d to Is 9sd ; good to best feed, Is 7d to Is 8d ; inferior and medium, Is 5d to Is 6£d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat — There is little inquiry for prime quality. Owing to tmcertainty as to the price of flour, millers are not inclined to operate to any great extent. Fowl wheat, however, is still scarce, and meets with ready sale at late quotations. We quote : Prime milling, 4s 2d to 4s 4d ; medium, 4s to 4s Id ; whole fowl wheat, 3s lld^o 4s ; broken and damaged, 3s 3d to 3s lOd per bushel (sacks extra).

Potatoes.— Supplies continue to come forward steadily, and are readily sold at prices on a par with late quotations. We quote : Best Derwents, £3 5s to £3 10s ; medium to good, £3 to £3 2s 6d ; other sorts, £2 15s to £3 per ton (bags in).

Chaff. — Heavier consignments have come forward during the past few days, and prices have receded 5s to 7s 6d per ton in consequence. Very little old chaff is now on hand, but is rather slow of sale, preference being given to prime bright new chaff. We quote Prime oaten sheaf, £3 5s to £3 7s 6d ; medium, £2 15s to £3 2s 6d ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 10s to £2 12s 6d per ton (bags extra).